A personal look at my journey to stoicism and how I didn’t so much choose it but was inevitably drawn to it. I didn’t know my maternal grandfather very well. I grew up in a different country, and he passed away when I was relatively young, so it is always interesting to learn more about him. As such, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he had an interest in stoic philosophy. I only recently discovered the philosophy of stoicism — which seeks to minimise suffering by help